"We do feel very confident that we'll make an arrest," Chief Villegas says

CONVERSE, Texas - Speaking to more than 50 people gathered in the rain by the scene of a 17-year-old's murder, Converse Police Chief Fidel Villegas addressed the concerned and curious members of the community.

"We do feel very confident that we'll make an arrest," Villegas said.

The assembled group was gathered at the MacArthur Park subdivision's community pool. On the other side of the fence, Zachary Segura had lain bleeding in the parking lot just six days earlier. Two days later, he died.

Following the meeting, some neighbors signed up for a Citizen's Police Academy or a future neighborhood watch group.

"They want to be on top of it and say what can we do now and get ahead of any other thing happening like this," Villegas said. "And that's what this is about."

So when the assembled neighbors walked back to their respective homes, they did so as a community.

Any criminal activity, they're going to have to think twice now," neighbor Jack Mata said as he left. "Because this community is going to come together and realize we don't want this happening ever again in our community."